Knee Deep in Statistics

It's only the first day after the first class and I've already spent a few hours working on it! It's going to be a LOT of work, but I think I'll get a lot out of the material for work. I LOVE my professor! She's so pretty, and very sweet and positive. She reminds me of a southern pageant girl or something, and I can tell she's going to be very helpful whenever I need it...and I'm sure I will! Which is funny, because every time I tell someone which teacher I have they say "omg, I heard she's HARRRRRD!"....fantastic.

We have three exams. Homework and quizzes happen every time we meet. And there is a HUGE project and presentation due on the last day of class (which is also the day when we take the final exam AND turn in the final homework). Sound like a lot? It is. Also, Spring Break is in three weeks so we'll be crunching two weeks of class into one...fun stuff. So I'm going to be a busy little bee for the next couple of months =)

Speaking of busy, this day is ridiculous. I've already had a Junior League Marketing meeting today at lunch and now I have to go to the General meeting tonight. Then I have to sneak away somehow to make it to the pre-opening of our friend's restaurant tonight. I'm SO glad I get to work from home tomorrow, I'll need a break after all this running around today!

That reminds me, I need to go to the break room and get another cup of coffee...tah tah!

Sprung Foward

Spring begins officially next week and boy did it feel like it was already here this weekend! It was a gorgeous day yesterday and I went on a 6 mile run in the sun with my Garmin. That thing is awesome, it's seriously the coolest thing ever invented in my book. There is no way I would have ever known what 6 miles actually was without it and it really holds me accountable. I feel like it's my own little personal trainer on my wrist telling me how I'm doing and pushing me to go farther. My route was pretty random yesterday. I ran up and down the running trail a couple of times and through some neighborhoods around mine. I always pretend I'm looking at houses and it makes the time go faster. There are some really nice ones around my house so it's fun!

I love uploading my Garmin stats on SportTracks. It's cool to see all of my workouts and the total number of calories burned and all of that good stuff from week to week. And as you can see, I've made my dashboard PINK! =)

Tonight is the beginning of my new class! Yes, I'm scared but I know if I work hard (and of course I will!), I'll be fine. All I have to do is use my available time wisely, like when I work from home on Wednesday's and on the weekends. That's 3 big days of free time to study. I feel like I have a good routine down during the week but I need to be more consistent on the weekend. I take way too many naps on the weekend. I slept for like 4 hours straight yesterday, it was ridiculous. But I had lots of energy for my run afterward!

The baseball game was really fun on Saturday, it was really windy though. We had a lot of friends come out and sit with us and Jeff's parents came by for a while. Then after the game Jeff and I went to Mermaids for dinner. I had never been there before and it was pretty good! I got some yummy salmon and everything came out in fish shaped plates, gotta love that!

We were pretty tired after dinner (it was only like 6:30) so we went to Hastings and rented a couple of movies, I only lasted through one. We watched Miracle at St. Anna's. It was really disturbing but good. I had to cover my eyes at times but it was an interesting movie for sure.

I hope everyone had a great weekend, Happy Monday!

Odd Morning

My morning has been so odd so far, not bad odd but really funny odd. I walk into BodyPump this morning and Friday mornings are when the really weird, out there, huge boob job, sings with every song girl teaches. And she starts out the class by saying "Ever have one of those mornings when you wake up and think you're pregnant?" I look around the room and there are about 5 jaws on the floor, obviously newbies because the rest of us are used to this kind of dialogue at 5:30 am with her. So I crack up and she keeps talking about how she couldn't be pregnant because her and her boyfriend don't have s*x that often. Lovely, very informative way to start a workout right? Yeah, it goes on and on from there...she cracks me up. She used to really annoy me but now I think it's funny, you never know what to expect. Oh and she was wearing a tennis skirt (weird right? it's bodypump) and kept telling people not to look up her skirt when she laid on the bench for chest and triceps! HA!

Then I was driving to work and this cop pulls out behind this car with his lights flashing and proceeds to chase him waaaay down the highway...they passed like 3 exits and dude wouldn't pull over. Meanwhile, a TON of cars (including me) are just following along! It was kind of weird, I was thinking "should I pull over", "no, that would be stupid, I'm behind them". It just felt weird chasing a high speed chase?! And the whole time I had "Bad boys bad boys, whatcha gonna do" in my head.

As it is casual Friday today (woo hoo!) I'm wearing jeans, cute brown patent Mary Janes, a white t-shirt, and a bright yellow scarf like the pretty girl in Slumdog Millionaire! It's making me feel very cheerful and spring-like! It's another beautiful day outside, I may go shopping at lunch and try to find some cheap thrills at Forever 21. We have an outdoor mall here and it's so nice to walk around when the weather is nice. Oh, and our boss said we could leave early today, yay!

Picture Day

Well, I feel a LOT better than I did yesterday. My throat still hurts and I'm still having sinus-like symptoms but all your get well soon's must have worked!

We had "picture day" here at work today because we had to take head shots to put on a new internal website for our department. So of course we had to take a new group picture...and a "funny one". Not really sure what's going on there!

Here is my loverly head shot!

I'm going to have to leave early today to go get my hair did...DARN!

I ran 4 miles this morning. I was supposed to run 6 but I got there a little late and I wanted to make sure I was feeling better this morning. I may run the final 2 after I get home from my hair appointment. The weather is GORGEOUS today, it's a sunny 72 degrees at the moment. But, it's really windy though, my office building creates a wind vortex, I could hardly push the door open at lunch!

Date Night was fun last night, I wasn't very hungry though because of my throat. Jeff's was hurting a little yesterday too so he brought over tea bags, honey, and Crown Royal to make a "hot toddy". He tried to make me try it like 3 times but I denied. We watched a movie called "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People". It was pretty funny, you'll definitely like it if you like British humor. Oh, and Kristin Dunst and Megan Fox are in it, random.

I Caught the Crud =(

I think I'm catching up with 1/2 the nation and getting sick =( My throat started hurting yesterday afternoon and I thought maybe it was just from the dust when I got my nails done (it tends to leave my throat a little sore), but after I got home it just got worse and worse. I drank a lot of hot water with lemon juice and it helped a little. But when I woke up this morning my throat was soooo swollen! I had to call the internet company to have them tell me how to reset my router and modem and the lady could hardly understand me. I sounded like I was being choked! Thank goodness I worked from home today, I definitely took advantage and took it easy this morning.

It's such a pretty day I hate wasting it being sick. I'm starting to feel better though so I think I'll stick with my short 3 mile run this afternoon, with my Garmin! I took a nap a lunch time and after I woke up I started laundry, started the dishwasher, and cleaned the house. So now that I'm feeling more productive maybe that will start making me feel better.

Tonight is date night with Jeff! That reminds me, I need to get to the grocery store this afternoon. I think I'm going to make something simple like chicken and rice and some vegetables. I don't feel like going all out and trying to make a gourmet meal at the moment. Plus I figure, less steps for cooking, less chances of me getting germs on the food and HIM getting sick, that wouldn't be cool.

I'm so glad the week is 1/2 way over! I have a hair appointment tomorrow so I'm excited about that. I'm good friends with my stylist so we always have fun in there. I don't really need much done on my color but I haven't cut my hair in about 3 months since I'm trying to grow it out so I'll probably have her do a "slight" trim. She's really good about knowing exactly what I like so I always trust her to make it perfect! =)

Well, I'm going to finish up my chores, go grocery shopping, running, cook dinner, then relaaaax, have a great day!

Beauty Day

I proclaim today, beauty day! I'm getting my nails did and going tanning at lunch, then working up a sweat in BodyAttack tonight! I have a hair appointment Thursday too, weee!

Well, I made it through my first class of graduate school! We turned in our take home finals last night and had some quick discussions and were out of there by 9 thank goodness. I got home just in time to see the a-hole Bachelor breaking up with my sweet Melissa. Not even gonna comment, 'nuff said.

I can't really enjoy this quick little 7 day break from school because I'm trying to review all the statistics stuff that I learned in college and have since forgot. =( We are going to enjoy the beautiful weather up ahead this weekend and go to a baseball game with a bunch of our friends. Our baseball games are FUN because if you sit in the outfield you can bring your own drinks and food. It's basically just a big party...so fun!

A few of my girlfriends have birthdays this month so my friend and I are starting to plan a big party for them at the end of the month. It will probably be around 30 people so we're trying to find a fun but classy (since they're girls!) place to fit everyone. We were thinking we could get the room at the wine bar but then we found out it only seats about 14 people =( not gonna work. So I guess it's back to the drawing board. Oh well, as you know I love planning so it's cool!

Running and Reality TV...The Perfect Combination

Well, I ran my 5.5 miles yesterday and my legs were soooo sore. I really didn't think I was going to make it past 2 miles, it felt like my calves were ripping every stride I took. But I pushed through and I did it! I pretty much ran 8/10th's of then walked 2/10th's and repeated that the entire time. Which, it really hurt to switch up my pace like that but when I walked really long strides it stretched my calves out and I probably really needed that. Anyway, by the time I got done grocery shopping and got home I could barely walk. I was hobbling around my house all night, Vincent was very confused and he wanted to play! So I took a TON of L-Glutamine and it pretty much saved me because I woke up this morning and I was about 1/2 as sore as I was the night before, allowing me to go to BodyPump this morning, woo hoo! I increased my weight this morning on chest, back, triceps, and biceps so I may be sore on top tomorrow too, does it ever end? (No)



Tonight is my last class for this half of the semester! I turn in my Final and we're having some last discussions and PIZZA! (Yes, I'm already saving up calories for it!) I pretty much knocked out my take home Final at work last Friday afternoon. Friday afternoons tend to be kind of slow around here so I took advantage of the quiet office and free time and got the entire thing written so that I wouldn't have to worry about it all weekend. I'm really glad I did! All I had left was a little bit of editing which didn't take too long. So, I'm DUNZO!



Mom and Dad and their friends came up yesterday for the Razorback basketball game yesterday. It was a big deal because the 1994 championship team and Nolan Richardson were there to be honored, so you could go and get signatures and things like that before the game. They took Jeff and I out to lunch and we had a fun time catching up!



Did anybody watch the Girl's Next Door last night? That was weird, you could tell Holly was probably starting to date Chris Angel during that show because her style of clothing went from like argyle sweaters and pearls to nothing but Ed Hardy t-shirts and hoodies.




And I really thought that Kendra's new show was going to be dumb (and it might be) but I CRACKED UP watching the previews when her Corgi fell in the pool and she freaked out and jumped in to get him. He was treading water in one spot like "uhhhh, where do I go now?"...seriously, you just have to see it, I was still laughing as I got into bed last night. Probably because it's exactly what I would do, Vincent is my child. And I'm not really sure if he can swim? We used to have a little Scottie dog that sunk every time she tried, so maybe all short-legged doggies can't?